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Israel to spend up to $4.1M to bolster support among Christians in western US, filings show
JTA ^ | 10 03 2025 | Staff

Posted on 10/08/2025 10:32:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

With its popularity in the United States crashing, Israel is bankrolling what organizers say will be the largest campaign of its kind to bolster support among evangelical churches, until recently seen as an unshakable base of support for the Jewish state.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has hired an American firm to run the campaign, with plans to spend as much as $4.1 million on marketing aimed at Christians across the Western part of the country, according to newly filed federal disclosures.

The documents, filed last week under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, reveal that Show Faith by Works, LLC will execute what it bills as the “largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in U.S. history.”

A newly formed company with a San Diego address, Show Faith by Works is run by Chad Schnitger, a prominent Christian conservative activist in California.

The initiative is designed to reach churchgoers with digital ads that are explicitly “pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian,” while dispatching a mobile “October 7th Experience” exhibit to church parking lots and Christian colleges.

The campaign adds a new prong to Israel’s U.S. communications blitz, complementing a $1.5 million-per-month contract for AI-driven social media activity with former Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale and a contract with a firm called Bridge Partners to create an influencer network called the Esther Project.

The PR blitz was anticipated after Israel’s Foreign Ministry was allocated $150 million in this year’s budget for public relations efforts.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asafeliashalev; bloggers; christians; churches; frantisemiticcult; geofencing; israel; learnhowtopost; notstaff; rop

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1 posted on 10/08/2025 10:32:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

They need to spend 100x that amount to make a dent in antisemitism here.


2 posted on 10/08/2025 10:34:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Where are getting that money from? I keep seeing these commercials about elderly Jews in Israel starving to death and living in squalor. Why doesn't Israel use that money to help its own citizens instead of begging for money from people half a world away?

And where is the money coming from to produce and air those ads?

3 posted on 10/08/2025 10:35:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Israel’s economy is still half Socalist.


4 posted on 10/08/2025 10:38:17 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMEbRICA AND HE WILL HAV mE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s too bad they need to spend anything. The Left calls everyone else Nazis, but they support the very people who sided with the Nazis in WWII.


5 posted on 10/08/2025 10:40:26 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: yesthatjallen

GTFO.


6 posted on 10/08/2025 10:41:14 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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4 million isn’t very much money for this sort of thing


7 posted on 10/08/2025 10:41:24 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Those ads are done by Christian scammers.


8 posted on 10/08/2025 10:41:30 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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"I keep seeing these commercials about elderly Jews in Israel starving to death and living in squalor."


If it's the one with that 90 year old woman saying that it's the best food she's ever had, that is Ukraine (Jews), not Israel.
9 posted on 10/08/2025 10:48:12 AM PDT by Bikkuri (We are all Charlie now. I am Charlie!)
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To: jjotto

That’s what my spidey senses tell me. Not sure if the scammers are Christians themselves but whoever is behind those organizations know how gullible we can be.


10 posted on 10/08/2025 10:48:20 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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"Those ads are done by Christian scammers."


If they are scammin', they ain't Christian...
11 posted on 10/08/2025 10:49:10 AM PDT by Bikkuri (We are all Charlie now. I am Charlie!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Catholics know that “A.D.” Israel is Holy Mother Church.

Senator Cruz revealed his ignorance of this fact to Qatarlson.

As more lay Catholics and non-Catholic or “denominationalist” Christians (and hopefully Cruz himself learn the truth of the matter, the modern state of Israel will need to adjust its approach.

Not that it isn’t a natural ally of the U.S. (and among our natural allies a particularly good ally) worthy of support in the normal course, but Israel should stop trying deliberately to tug at biblical heartstrings.


12 posted on 10/08/2025 10:52:01 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Texas Eagle

Yes, thanks. I did mean that those ads target Christians for scamming. Jews in America are besieged by Jewish organizations seeking money. They don’t need TV ads.

Israel GDP per capita is $55-60,000 with very high taxes and robust social welfare, including many actual charitable organizations for Israel’s 10 million citizens.


13 posted on 10/08/2025 10:58:51 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: Bikkuri

Same thing for Ukraine. They can afford to give an American crack head and his senile father millions of dollars but they can’t afford 19 dollars a month to feed 90 year old holocaust survivors? How many can there be?


14 posted on 10/08/2025 11:03:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

No argument from me..
I also see it as a scam.


15 posted on 10/08/2025 11:04:57 AM PDT by Bikkuri (We are all Charlie now. I am Charlie!)
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To: Texas Eagle

$4 million compared to what? The 2,000 million Kamala Harris ran thru?

Israel spends PENNIES, in essence, trying to build support in the USA. However...I don’t think Israel NEEDS to spend money building support among Christian churches. Many churches are already strongly pro-Israel.

The nutjob liberals are the ones they need to reach, and they are not found in Christian churches.


16 posted on 10/08/2025 11:07:28 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Texas Eagle

We know it’s NOT from the Billions we give in Military aid to control Israel’s foreign policy. That money MUST be spent on US MIC weapons projects


17 posted on 10/08/2025 11:16:20 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Perhaps. But wouldn’t that free up funds to feed 90 year old holocaust survivors? I mean 19 dollars a month isn’t really that much. And how many 90 year old holocaust survivors can there be?


18 posted on 10/08/2025 11:19:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

Now what did the devil offer Christ????


19 posted on 10/08/2025 11:23:26 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: one guy in new jersey
Catholics know that “A.D.” Israel is Holy Mother Church.

Senator Cruz revealed his ignorance of this fact to Qatarlson.

As more lay Catholics and non-Catholic or “denominationalist” Christians (and hopefully Cruz himself learn the truth of the matter...

For some reason that reminded me of someone else's claim to aristocracy. LOL


20 posted on 10/08/2025 11:33:14 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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